House of Corruption by Erik Tavares

Author:Erik Tavares
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: werewolf, Horror, gothic horror, vampire, Gothic, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 0615603750
Publisher: Valour Designs Books
Published: 2012-02-01T05:45:38.349000+00:00

22

Upon disembarking at Cassis Station, Savoy headed east on a rented one-horse cariole, following a winding road with an excellent view. The sea swelled against the shoreline cliffs. He thought about what he might say if Ernst Stronheim was lodging at his winter retreat, what questions he might ask. There was scant guarantee he would be there.

It cannot be coincidence, he decided. Of all the ports along the Mediterranean coast, why would the Kalabakang stop here?

Yet the further he traveled, the worse he felt.

I do not believe in coincidence.

He had first encountered Doctor Stronheim at the University of Vienna, a prominent biology and philosophy instructor at the time, back in the day when Savoy’s family lived in Berne and still bore the ancestral name Soloveichik. Ernst proved a man of keen intellect and reason, but maintained enough of a rebellious curiosity to expand his thinking beyond the narrow-mindedness of academia. From the very start, the two men got along famously. In time, Stronheim guided and supported him, encouraged him to follow any path he wished to take.

Savoy saw no such support from his own father. You betray your name and your people and your history, his father had said, soon after the family’s arrival in London. Artémius Soloveichik had announced he would become Artémius Savoy and, even worse, baptized in the Catholic Church. You betray God himself, clamoring after their false messiah.

Years later, Savoy wondered if guilt and fear contributed to his decision. Jews were objects of derision, even in progressive London, when many men and women changed their names to avoid the anti-Semitism boiling beneath the surface. Following his father’s angry claims there came more words, raised voices, his mother weeping. It ended when Savoy left his family’s house vowing never to return.

He did not see his father again until he watched his coffin lowered into the ground. Even then, he watched from a distance.

Blazes, but he missed the old man.

Why think of his father now?

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